CONTRAVENE LYRICS

"Desperation"

There are women on the billboards and in commercials on TV 
There are women selling products with their own bodies 
Women selling beer, cigarettes and gum 
Women looking shallow-minded and inherently dumb 
Women selling cars, cosmetics and attire 
Telling us to look good, this is what's required 
There are women on the corners selling themselves upon the streets 
Why are women so expected to sell their own sexuality? 
There are women in magazines to tell us how to act 
Manipulating us as children, telling us it's fact 
There are women who have figured out to make a decent wage, 
It's worth the humiliation of dancing on a stage. 
Greedy eyes fixed on her, she has to hold a smile 
cause she's single with two children and the pay makes it worth while... 
They pay women for their sexuality, they know that it will sell 
And some women see the money as an escape from their own hell 
Both the sex industry and advertisers feed on desperation 
preying on inequality, the accepted male/female relation 
The more insecure the better, that's when we believe their lies 
It's time to rethink and relearn, and open up our eyes.

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